[Quincy Lehr]

You are invited to the Zoom launch by Tomás Mac Síomóin & Aisling Richmond of Kevin Higgins’ new book The Colour Yellow & The Number 19 – Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly Retain His Sanity During 2020 which is published by Nuascéalta.
In a mix of poetry and prose, Kevin Higgins takes a darkly humorous approach to finding himself designated one of the “vulnerable” during the year in which plague again stalked the Earth. He also, as is his way, finds time to drop acerbic comment on the heads of the ungood and the ungreat, and to comment in a fairly unrestrained fashion on world affairs. This is the ideal Christmas or Birthday present for Irish Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan and for those who, when the time comes, hope to be invited to Kevin’s funeral. It is also the perfect gift for the posh liberal in your life.
The book will be launched by well known Somatic therapist Aisling Richmond and renowned writer and critic Tomás Mac Siomóin. The MC for the evening will be poet Rachel Coventry.
Make sure you have your copy of The Colour Yellow & The Number 19 for the launch by buying a copy in advance here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colour-Yellow.../dp/B08MHKVLS7 or here http://mentioningthewar.blogspot.com/.../the-perfect....
Join the meeting at
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549
Meeting ID: 738 901 3549
6.30pm GMT (1:30pm EST, 10:30am PST) Friday, December 4th
ALL WELCOME!
The evening will also include a special solidarity feature: Poems for #IStandWithJeremyCorbyn as an act of solidarity with the ongoing politically motivated witch hunt in the U.K. against supporters of Palestinian rights. Kevin will read a poem from the book as part of this. Others showing their solidarity through poetry are: Janet Silver, Ruth Aylett, Merryn Williams, Gerry Potter, Neil Fulwood, Phil Knight, Kate Ennals, Andre Rostant, Sandy Yannone, Dave Lordan, Miriam O’Donovan, Quincy Lehr, Josephine Dickinson, & Susan Millar DuMars, who will introduce this segment of the evening.

[Mark McDonnell]

I really hope it goes well, Quincy, though I doubt I'll be relieved from family commitments at 6:30 on Friday evening. The Corbyn side of the programme sounds a worthy gesture for an appallingly treated, disgracefully maligned, good and principled man.

Good luck with it.

[Ann Drysdale]

Do you mean readings from this book alongside Kevin's latest, Q?

http://www.shoestring-press.com/2016...jeremy-corbyn/

Either way, I'll try to look in on the launch tomorrow.

[Mark McDonnell]

I keep meaning to buy that book, Annie. I really must.

I’ll try to sneak away, but 6:30 on a Friday is curry time,

[Ann Drysdale]

It went well.

[Mark McDonnell]

Good to hear.